cello

"Take note not just of the eloquence of the cello lines but also of the transparency, the delicacy, the weightless loveliness of so much of the orchestral writing."

"The latest BIS release with Sebastian Fagerlund’s orchestral music includes powerful performances of two works that belong to his most convincing achievements in this genre."

"The Ondine recording with works for solo cello by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Kaija Saariaho presents powerful and straightforward interpretations by the US cellist Wilhelmina Smith."

"Tetzlaff’s and Süssman’s vision of Rautavaara's music is lucid and profound, never overly sentimental but always highly expressive."

The Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen is equally at home in a Romantic concerto as in music of the Baroque or the present day. When this article was published, he had just premiered Magnus Lindberg’s Cello Concerto in Paris, on 6 May 1999. He here describes how working with composers of his own day and age can help the performer to enter into the minds of composers who lived and died long ago.